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{{quote|''One upon a time, there was a sensible straight line who was hopelessly in love... with a dot.''|'''Opening narration'''}}
'''''The Dot and the Line: a Romance in Lower Mathematics''''' is a short book written and illustrated in 1963 by Norton Juster (of ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]'' fame). Inspired by ''[[Flatland]]'',
In 1965, Juster wrote a screenplay and acclaimed animator [[Chuck Jones]] animated it. It won an [[Academy Award]] for Animated Short Film.
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[http://youtu.be/OmSbdvzbOzY You can watch the cartoon in its entirety on You Tube here]. (Ten minutes long.)
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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: The dot to the squiggle.
* [[All Work vs. All Play]]
* [[Animated Adaptation]]: The 1965 short.
* [[MGM Oneshot Cartoons]]{{context}}▼
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: "But even allowing for his feelings, this was probably stretching a point.", and of course the moral (see [[Spoof Aesop]], below).▼
▲* [[MGM Oneshot Cartoons]]
▲* [[One Dimensional Thinking]]: Seems to be the dot's problem with the line.
* [[Spoof Aesop]]: "To the [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Vector]] Belong the Spoils"
▲* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: "But even allowing for his feelings, this was probably stretching a point.", and of course the moral (see [[Spoof Aesop]], below).
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